Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-10-05
THROUGH TIE LAND.

Forty BILLION dollars is supposed to be
the amount of capital invested in all the in
dustrics Of this country together, and the
annual product from this is estimated at
nine billion dollars.
REPORT says company with capital Of
one million dollars has been formed for the
purpose of piping artificial gas from the
coal-fields of Illinois to st. Louis, dis
tsnce of eleven miles.
ANDREW CARNEGIE, the iron king, is con-
sidering plans for a baronial palace TO be
erected by him on the highest point Of the
Allegheny Mountains. The cost is esti-
mated as high as $25O,OO0.
IN New York there are several young
ladies who make good living by person
ally conducting rich female visitors to that
city to the various dry goods stores, places
OF amusement aud other points of interest.
TIE vicissitudcs of life were one day re-
Gently illustrated in the case of man who
spent two hours in New York office wait
ing tG borrow ten dollars from a millionaire
who, two years previously, was employed
by him as clerk. Speculation had en-
riched the one and impoverished the other.
THERE are 1J0 female physicians in New
York, while more than double the number
are to be found in Brooklyn and other ad-
jacent cities. Among those in New York
City it is said there arc quito a number who
have incomes of 10000; two or three make
yearly sums ranging from $4,000 to $4,000,
and one has averaged for the last four years
o steady income of So, 600.
AS AN example of the results of booming
a town the following prices of real estate
in Los Angeles, Cal, are quoted: Lots on
the principal streets that could be had for
fxxyr 20, 20
day commanding ten to eighteen hundred
dollars per front foot Land Immediately
outside the city sells at from two to four
thousand dollars per acre. The four banks
of Los Angeles hold on deposit about
thirteen million dollars belonging to new
residents.
THE monument over the grave of Israel
Putnam, the revolutionary hero, at Brook
lyn, Conn, for which the State appropriated
$4,000, will be dedicated June IL, 1888, the
anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill.
The remains of General Putnam, in remark
able preservation, were lately removed
from the Brooklyn cemetery to the new
site, and the old tombstone. with the in
scription prepared by President Timothy
Dwight, of Yale College, was deposited in
the rooms of the State Historical Society at
Hartford.
A DIFFICULT and complicated work has
just been achieved in the completion of the
Hagcrman tunnel near Leadville. Aside
from its being triumph of engineering the
completion of the work is an achievement
for the tenacity and pluck of the corpora
ton The machinery used was dragged
through the SHOWS of hitherto traclxless
wilderness. But all distractions were
eventually overcome and the machinery
was put in operation. When the drill final
~ pressed through the rock the fact was
the signal for cheering, and as the men of
the gangs met in cordial hand-clasp in the
very center of that living mass of rock each
congratulated the other upon the speedy
termination of the work
A TUNNEL over a mile IN length is in pro-
gress under the St Clair river from Port
Huron, Mich, to the Canadian side. II will
have Il clear internal diameter of twenty
feet, and will have single track. 1t was
ut first proposed to construct a two-traclt
tunnel but careful estimates of the cost
werc given, showing that two siaglc-tracks
tunnels could be built cheaper than ono
doublc-track tunnel. II this tunnel is q sue
cess, and the traffic becomes profitable, tho
company intends TO build q second one.
The tunnel is being built by private conf
pany and will cost about $l.500,00). 1t is
prOOdDlc, uOWcTeT, THAI Inc lctUlnS ROADS
will form pool and obtain control of it
after its completion. Tho progress of the
work is being watched with keen interest,
as great changes are likely to be occasioned
by its successful operation, possibly the
duplicating of the tunnel at Detroit at
whatever cost.
AN officer of the U. S. Signal Service has
taken up his quarters at Key West, Fla,
for the purpose of establishing between
that point and the West Indian Islands,
communication by means of carrier pigeons,
for the benefit of the signal service. The
experiment will be commenced with fifty
] young birds. When properly trained, he
will give the birds to captains of vessels,
who will take them out to sea and liberate
them. At first he will take them out four
or five miles, gradually increasing the dis
tance until the West Indies are reached.
1t will enable tho signal service, if the birds
can be successfully trained, to give quicker
and more definite and reliable information
in regard to the prevalence and character
of storms, and the condition of the weather
on the several islands. It is calculated a
! pigeon will make the trip between Nassau
and Key West, about sixty miles, in one
hour and half.